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Social Media Challenge Rewind: Insights and 'Insounds' of TikTok Audio Virality

Discover how Jayeson Gao uncovered TikTok audio virality insights, winning 2nd place in Paradime's dbt™ Challenge - Social Media Edition!

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Social Media Challenge Rewind: Most Instagrammable Destinations

Işın Pesch analyzes 17M Instagram posts to reveal top travel destinations and engagement patterns in Paradime's dbt™ Data Modeling Challenge.

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Unlocking Social Media Insights: Highlights from the dbt™ Data Modeling Challenge

Discover the winners and top insights uncovered from Paradime's dbt™ Data Modeling Challenge - Social Media Edition!

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Feature drop: Bolt on Turbo Boost

We have released killer quality of life improvement in Paradime Bolt that should reduce MTTR by orders of magnitude.

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Mastering the dbt™ CLI - Selector Methods

In this third part, we will go through selector methods in the dbt™ commands that analytics engineers can use to fine tune their model selections.

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Mastering the dbt™ CLI - Graph Operators

In this second part, we will go through graph selectors in the dbt™ commands that analytics engineers can use to fine tune their model selections.

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Mastering the dbt™ CLI - Commands

In this 3 part series, we will go through the dbt™ commands and how analytics engineers can accelerate their data transformations.

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Introducing Mermaid in the Paradime Code IDE

Paradime introduces support for ERDs using Mermaid.js, the highly popular diagram-as-code library that makes diagramming as easy as typing.

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Cloud Development Environments: A New Paradigm for Analytics Engineering

Embrace the power of cloud development environments (CDE) and take your analytics engineering to the next level.

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DuckDB - a primer

A primer on DuckDB, with code examples, extensions, use cases and how to use with dbt™ for data transformation including with Paradime.

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Deferral using dbt™ - a definitive guide

A definitive guide on how to use deferral using dbt™ with code examples and pro tips. Save time and cost using this powerful technique.

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Connecting dbt™ to Databricks - A definitive guide

The definitive guide on connecting dbt™ and Databricks.

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Connecting dbt™ to Snowflake - A definitive guide

Let's dive into methods of connecting dbt™ to Snowflake and how Paradime can significantly ease the process.

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Improve your AI models with diverse data

Diverse data enhances the robustness and accuracy of generative AI models, directly impacting business value and ROI.

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Feature Drop: New Editor Shortcuts

A new suite of keyboard shortcuts to help you supercharge your code editing experience

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Feature Drop: Easy-Access Context Menu

New context menu options that simplify working with files directly from your code editor

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Feature Drop: Autogenerate Model Description and Column Descriptions

You can now generate detailed descriptions for your columns and models using DinoAI, streamlining the documentation process significantly

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Connecting dbt™ Pipelines to BigQuery

Combining dbt™ with Google BigQuery can significantly enhance data workflows.

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Connecting dbt™ to Amazon Redshift

Connecting dbt™ and Redshift can unlock a significant boost for data teams, enabling efficient data transformations, model creation, & quality tests.

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SQLFluff + dbt™

SQLFluff is a sophisticated SQL linting solution, addressing a longstanding gap in tools for SQL code analysis.

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Getting Started with dbt™ Defer

By deferring to a production database, you can test changes without impacting the main production environment.

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Feature Drop: Rainbow CSV Extension

Rainbow CSV is an extension designed to enhance CSV file readability and management.

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Feature Drop: Scratchpad 2.0

This feature offers a temporary, gitignored environment for creating and testing code snippets in SQL, dbt™ models, and Python.

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Feature Drop: APIs Scope Management

Users can now track and manage the keys used for API calls, ensuring improved control and security over their Paradime integrations.

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Augmentation, Not Automation: AI's True Impact on Analytics Engineering

AI isn't replacing us; it's augmenting our capabilities, allowing us to operate at a higher cognitive level and tackle more complex challenges.

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Paradime, now a proud NVIDIA Inception Program member

We are thrilled to announce Paradime's acceptance into the NVIDIA Inception Program 🔥

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Movie Challenge Rewind: Gender and Age Trends in Hollywood

Discover the 3rd place winner's insights and best practices from the Movie Data Modeling Challenge!

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Movie Challenge Rewind: Plotting Movie Popularity

Discover the 2nd place winner's insights and best practices from the Movie Data Modeling Challenge!

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The Impact of AI Copilots on Analytics Engineering

Speeded up coding time, reduced ticket sizes, and improved PR pickup times with an AI copilot. The numbers are there to prove it.

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Feature Drop: Easy access to Bolt dbt™ compiled/run code

With direct access to the code, you can quickly spot and fix issues, boosting your work efficiency and effectiveness.

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Feature Spotlight: Customizing your Radar Dashboards

Unlock the full potential of your Radar dashboards with powerful customization options designed to meet the needs of your data team.

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Movie Challenge Rewind: Data Modeling Movie Success

Discover the 1st place winner's insights and best practices from the Movie Data Modeling Challenge!

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Movie Challenge Rewind: The Franchise Edition

From Star Wars to Harry Potter - here are some of the insights Blosher Brar uncovered.

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Starter Guide: AI basics for Analytics Engineers

A practical guide to help analytics engineers get started, and get ahead, with AI.

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Starter Guide: How to get the most out of your AI copilot

Hands-on guide on how to use AI to improve code quality, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize queries - with code and prompt examples.

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Analytics engineering for non-engineers: what's in it for you?

Working in the finance, legal, compliance, procurement, or project management team? This is what analytics engineering can do for your department.

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Movie Challenge Rewind: Hollywood Economics

From historic blockbusters to inflation-adjusted earnings, Anton Goncharuk reveals the money-side of Hollywood.

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Faster, better, securer Security & Compliance processes

When evaluating vendors, don't overlook security & compliance measures, or assume that bigger companies are automatically the "safer choice".

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Blockbuster Analytics: Paradime's Movie Data Modeling Challenge Highlights

Learn about our dbt™ Data Modeling Challenge - the movie edition, the winners, and the insights uncovered.

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Feature Drop: Bolt DAG visualization and timeline view

Streamline troubleshooting with the Bolt DAG visualization and timeline view

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Feature Drop: Bolt Schedules Template

Time to accelerate the setup of dbt ™ production jobs.

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Why being greener is better for customers - beyond the obvious

Responsible procurement isn’t just a buzzword; it’s essential for business growth.

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Announcing Paradime v4.0

Discover the groundbreaking features of Paradime v4.0 - and get a sneak-peak of our product roadmap.

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NBA Challenge Rewind: The Price of Performance - Exploring NBA Finances

Discover Spence's insights, data modeling best practices, and his experiences in Paradime's 'NBA Data Modeling Challenge.'

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Improved role-based access control

The fewer headaches caused by admin stuff, the more time you'll have for actual work. And the more work you get done, the more fun you'll have.

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Get to know the Paradime IDE Apps Panel

Let’s take a look at some of the features that will turbocharge your dbt™️ development.

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Winning Strategies for Paradime's Movie Data Modeling Challenge

Learn tried-and-true strategies and analytics engineering best practices to excel in Paradime's Movie Data Modeling Challenge and beyond!

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3 ways your data team can help amplify marketing success

Together with a couple of industry experts, we delved into how data & analytics teams can help propel marketing efforts.

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Challenge alert: ready, set, analyze 🎬

Lightdash and Paradime invite you to participate in the second edition of our dbt™ data modeling challenge. This time, we are heading to the cinema 🎞

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NBA Challenge Rewind: Behind the arc - A closer look at 3 pointers

Discover Spence's insights, data modeling best practices, and his experiences in Paradime's 'NBA Data Modeling Challenge.'

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NBA Challenge Rewind: On the Court with dbt™: Data Modeling the Toronto Raptors

Discover Nikita's insights, data modeling best practices, and his experiences in Paradime's 'NBA Data Modeling Challenge.'

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NBA Challenge Rewind: A deep dive into advanced NBA metrics with dbt™

Discover István's insights, data modeling best practices, and his experiences in Paradime's 'NBA Data Modeling Challenge.'

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NBA Challenge Rewind: Jordan or LeBron? dbt's 🐐 Analysis

Discover Cai's insights, data modeling best practices, and his experiences in Paradime's 'NBA Data Modeling Challenge.'

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NBA Challenge Rewind: From Stats to Stories

Discover Katie's insights, data modeling best practices, and her experiences in Paradime's 'NBA Data Modeling Challenge.'

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DinoAI, our new AI co-pilot, has now been let loose

The wait is finally over. We have now launched DinoAI, Paradime's LLM-powered AI co-pilot, into public preview 🚀

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Setting a new industry standard with the help of Paradime

How Medialab laid the foundation for its data transformation processes with the help of Paradime.

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Basketball by the numbers: Insights from Paradime's NBA Data Modeling Challenge

Learn about the NBA Data Modeling Challenge, the winners, and the insights uncovered by participants!

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What we shipped #13

Our users spoke, we listened. We have now completely re-architected the backend of the data catalog.

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Introducing Paradime Radar

The real-time intelligence engine for analytics work.

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What we shipped #12

Hold on to your seats; analytics engineering is getting a lot more intuitive, easier, and fun.

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Don’t go breaking my heart - literally

How well do you handle stress or nervousness? Here are some nuggets from our chat with the HRV4Training founder Marco Altini.

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A big welcome to our judges

Our dbt™ Data Modeling Challenge is heating up, so it's time to give a proper welcome to our brilliant judges.

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We have a challenge for you. Are you ready?

Attention, analytics and data folks - want to win a $1,500 Amazon Voucher? Time to put your game face on.

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Feature Spotlight: Schedule Table View and Search & Filter

Paradime makes running dbt™ on a schedule a breeze, whether you're comfortable managing dbt™ schedules via YAML files or prefer the UI.

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How to successfully run over dbt™ 400 models with 100% up time

Henri Jäderberg runs over 400 dbt™ models every hour, feeding everything from marketing to the c-suite with valuable insights - 24/7.

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What we shipped: the year in review

2023 was a surreal year for Paradime. In this post, we will share the latest updates, 2023 highlights, and what to expect in the new year.

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Feature Spotlight: Multi-Workspaces

Learn how you can improve your dbt™ development with Paradime's multi-workspaces feature, and save time.

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Feature Spotlight: Unlocking Efficiency with Paradime’s IDE

Learn a few tips and tricks to dramatically improved my dbt™ development workflow.

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Feature Spotlight: Merge Conflict Resolution

Merge conflicts are inevitable during dbt™ development, but Paradime makes solving them easy.

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Data Profile: Who is Gabi Steele?

Gabi Steele - the painter turned data visualisation extraordinaire, who went on to co-found Preql.

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How MyTutor’s Analytics Engineers saw a 50% jump in efficiency

The Paradime team is thrilled to be part of MyTutor's mission to enhance young people's educational outcome.

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Stuff we shipped #10

Paradime Code IDE is now has autocomplete, go to definition, peek definition, query limits and CSV download to supercharge developer productivity.

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Stuff we shipped #9

We take a look at the new features in Paradime's Code IDE and CI/CD to speed up and reduce cost of analytics development.

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7 tools the modern data team needs to know about

Here are the tools every forward-thinking data team should have on their radar.

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Slashing analytics development cost with our new DuckDB and MotherDuck integration

Discover how Paradime's integration with MotherDuck and DuckDB unlocks new use cases for analytics teams - with zero cloud compute costs.

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The importance of celebrating others in the data and analytics space

We are big believers in “startups supporting startups” and we recognise that the collective progress in our space serves to benefit all of us.

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The Ducks have arrived in Paradime

We are beyond excited to announce that we are partnering up with the brilliant team at MotherDuck to help analytics engineers adopt DuckDB with ease.

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From buzzwords to Star Wars - this is Tommy DANGerous

Have you ever wondered how software engineers transform into CEOs? This is Tommy Dang's, co-founder and CEO of Mage, journey.

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Stuff we shipped #8

Discover the newly released features from Paradime, including Code IDE search experience, Paradime Live v2.0, and outgoing webhooks.

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With less context-switching, the Tide team boosted their productivity

Since implementing Paradime, close to 90% of the Data & Analytics team has experienced a smoother, more user-centric analytics development workflow.

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Navigating the Data Universe with Erik Edelmann

We dived into Erik's fascinating journey - from the early days at WeWork to his reflections on the ever-evolving landscape of analytics.

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From newbie to dbt™ proficient with the help of Paradime

You don't need to be the most technical data professional to use Paradime. Giancarlo, Data Analyst at Levity, learned dbt™ by using our platform.

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Turning data into money: A conversation with Hamis Badarou

In the ever-evolving world of data analytics and business growth, the ability to transform raw data into valuable insights has become a critical skill

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Three reasons why Capital on Tap uses Paradime

Capital on Tap were looking for a new seamless, cost-effective, and flexible tool - and found Paradime.io.

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What's the new dbt Cloud™ price increase about? - Part 2

In this article, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about the new dbt™ pricing plan and what are your options.

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Stuff we shipped #7

Latest updates including key-pair authentication for Snowflake, public help docs, in-app search, and new CLI command to quickly setup dbt™ projects.

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Paradime v3.0 - the future is open

We are unlocking the future of analytics work with our open platform that provides data quality, data observability and semantic layer.

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Introducing Scratchpad and JIT Compile in the Code IDE

Introducing two massive performance boosts - Scratchpad and JIT Compile to make analytics development 100x faster.

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Introducing Cross-platform column-level lineage-diff

Discover how Paradime's revolutionary cross-platform column-level lineage diff can help you deploy changes quickly, confidently, and safely.

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Introducing Paradime Docs

Introducing Paradime Docs, the AI-driven docs app to write data docs in seconds, with autogeneration, bi-directional YAML sync and cross-platform.

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Shipping for v3.0 - Global availability

Paradime is now global availability across four continents. Learn about the key benefits and what to consider when choosing a region.

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Stuff we shipped #6

The Paradime product update #6. We shipped working with prod data during dbt development and injecting runtime variables into materialized tables.

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Product - shipping vs polishing

We explore how progressive assimilation and replacement can help us ship, polish, experiment and throw away features to build better products.

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Stuff we shipped #5

Paradime product update for 13 April 2023. Say hello 👋 to Paradime Workspaces.

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Stuff we shipped #4

Paradime product update for 22-Mar-2023. We finally conquered Azure DevOps!!!

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Stuff we shipped #3

Paradime product update for 15-Mar-2023. Some cool linter upgrades to the Code IDE and no SVB drama.

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Stuff we shipped #2

Paradime product update for 01-Mar-2023. Improvement to querying Bolt run artefact and usability upgrades to Code IDE.

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Learn dbt Core™* using Paradime

The most comprehensive analytics course using dbt Core™* and Paradime.

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What does dbt Cloud™* price increase mean?

The price-value curve for dbt Cloud™* is completely broken. Time to switch to Paradime.

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Product of the day—top questions on Product Hunt about Paradime

Answers you want on Paradime benefits, pricing, design, and more.